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        <title>CSS Test: White-space 'pre-line' vs. ':before' assignment</title>
        <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" />
        <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#white-space-prop" />
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        <meta name="assert" content="The ':before' assignment and 'white-space: pre-line' assignment behave the same way with respect to white space." />
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            #div1
            {
                white-space: pre-line;
            }
            #div2:before
            {
                content:" The   spacing  on      these         ";
                white-space: pre-line;
            }
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        <p>Test passes if the two lines below have the exact same spacing.</p>
        <div id="div1"> The   spacing  on      these         two  sentences need to be the    same!  </div>
        <div id="div2">two  sentences need to be the    same!  </div>
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